option account

A brokerage account that is approved for buying and selling options. Opening an option account requires that an investor complete an option agreement and receive a brochure describing the risks of trading standardized options.

Perversely, it is precisely when the market is doing badly that employees should take advantage of low share prices, but having SAYE share option accounts with such low interest rates hardly helps to sell the concept to employees.

Through IBG, Capital will be able to offer its member firms access to a full range of products including fee-based products, cash management accounts, individual and small business retirement programs, a mutual fund supermarket, margin and option accounts, and institutional brokerage services through Fidelity Capital Markets, a unit of IBG.

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